The Collective Obligation

•   The cold, painful facts: our media, politicians and diplomats naively refuse to accept •   There can be no victory for an army who hasn't the will to fight_   •   You cannot buy,  sell nor train the will of a soldier or its leaders Afghanistan abandoned their women, their children and their obligations to the people around the world who gave their sweat, lives, blood and humanitarianism to Afghanistan for twenty years.  ______________________________ Now... Human Rights agencies will witness countless cases of abuse, barbarism and death upon women and children for decades to come.  Billions of U.S. tax payers dollars of food, medicine and military equipment that should be in the hands of civilians, are now in the hands of the Taliban.     The facts disclosed within this blog are relayed from private conversations via close friendships of ex-service members:  Retired Marine Lt. Col of 3 wars, retired Staff Sergent Ar...

If you cannot respect the Civil Rights of others while protesting for Civil Rights__  your dreams will never be realized.    Not since the murder of Martin Luther King Jr., has their been one significant political, judicial, socioeconomic amendment or mandate passed in Washington D.C. that has advanced the Civil Rights movement more than Mr. King did in his day.   So why did we abandon his methods over the last fifty years?   Since his death, the scarcity of peaceful civil disobedience in protests and marches has much to do with this sad state of affairs___  perhaps it is time to turn back the clock and reeducate ourselves.     Martin Luther King Jr., taught America the art of Peaceful Civil Disobedience and implored us to stay with this method, for it would help us achieve our dreams.   Yet, the brilliance of his guidance slipped from our fingers 50 years ago and has left us broken and divided into various factions, with a multitude of ...